 | Dads Are the Original Hipsters
Publication Date: April 18, 2012He listened to vinyl before you did. He drank whiskey before you did. He had a mustache before you did. Admit it: your dad was a hipster before you were! Based on the blog phenomenon of the same name, this book celebrates dads as the original hipsters. Vintage photos of real dads back in the day—in their short shorts and tight tees playing arcade games—accompany snarky captions that at once tip a cap to Dad's glory days and poke fun at modern hipsters. Featuring tons of never-before-seen content, this is the perfect gift for dads, hipsters, and tho...
 |  | Orpheus & Eurydice
Publication Date: February 1, 2001How can I celebrate love/ now that I know what it does? So begins this booklength lyric sequence which reinhabits and modernizes the story of Orpheus, the mythic master of the lyre (and father of lyric poetry) and Eurydice, his lover who died and whom Orpheus tried to rescue from Hades.Gregory Orr uses as his touchstone the assertion that myths attempt to narrate a whole human experience, while at the same time serving a purpose which resists explanation. Through poems of passionate and obsessive erotic love, Orr has dramatized the anguished intersection of ...
|  | The Long Way Home
Release Date: May 1, 2012Four women bound by chance take the trip of a lifetime in KarenMcQuestion's fifth novel The Long Way Home.For Wisconsinites Marnie, Laverne and Rita, life isn't working out sowell. Each is biding time, waiting for something better, something totransport them out of what their lives have recently become. And thenthere's Jazzy: bubbly, positive, and happy even though she hears voices ofthe departed. Brought together by a chance meeting, the women decide tojoin Marnie on a road trip from Wisconsin to Las Vegas where she intendsto reunite with Troy, the boy she raised as...
|  | Things I Wish I'd Known
Publication Date: October 1, 2011When Claire Cooper was 15 she'd swear on her Wham album that... 1) Big hair and rah-rah skirts were here to stay 2) Spandau Ballet would never split up 3) She would marry her idol, heart-throb footballer Andy Pailes Fast Forward 20 years and things haven't gone quite to plan. And when Claire discovers a sealed envelope containing the "dream list" she wrote as a teenager, she realises how far removed her life is from the one she'd imagined. Divorced, stuck in a dead-end job and dating an ambulance-chasing personal injury lawyer, she decides it's time to put he...
|  | The Inquisitor: A Novel
Publication Date: October 9, 2002I hereby record those events which took place in and around the city of Lazet relating to the assassination of our venerable Brother Augustin Duese in the year of the Incarnate Word, 1318.So writes Brother Bernard, an Inquisitor of Heretical Depravity, following the discovery of his superior's dismembered corpse.At a time when heresy is a heinous offence, routed out with ruthless determination, Brother Bernard is accustomed to dispensing harsh justice.But as he attempts to make sense of this shocking crime, he himself becomes an object of persecution-thanks t...
|  | Club Vampyre
Publication Date: December 1, 1997I'm Anita Blake, expert on creatures of the night. Vampires call me The Executioner. What I call them isn't repeatable. Ever since the Supreme Court granted the undead equal rights, most people think vampires are just ordinary folks with fangs. I know better. I carry the scars. . . In my job -- I'm an animator; I raise the dead -- I've seen just about everything. I've dines with shapeshifters, danced with werewolves and been wooed, but not won, by Jean-Claude, the most poqerful bloodsucker in St. Louis. When a serial killer started murdering vampires, it was...
|  | The Race: A Novel of Grit, Tactics, and the Tour de France
Publication Date: May 1, 2004The white-knuckle pace of a bicycle race drives this novel about a young American's opportunity to compete in the Tour de France. Complex relationships with teammates, personal and professional obstacles, and a terrible disaster cause the young cyclist to redefine his limits. An insider's perspective on the world of professional bicycle racing reveals that the required tactics and skills create a culture in which pain is the ultimate currency and endurance is the most powerful force. The intense pressure the competitors experience offers an instructive look at pe...
|  | Little Bee
Release Date: May 3, 2011 WE DON'T WANT TO TELL YOU TOO MUCH ABOUT THIS BOOK.It is a truly special story and we don't want to spoil it. Nevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this: It is extremely funny, but the African beach scene is horrific. The story starts there, but the book doesn't. And it's what happens afterward that is most important. Once you have read it, you'll want to tell everyone about it. When you do, please don't tell them what happens either. The magic is in how it unfolds. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
|  | My Song Is Of Mercy; Writings of Matthew Kelty, Monk of Gethsemani
Publication Date: October 1, 1994A collection of writings by a monk of Gethsemani. Full of wisdom and flows from a deeply lived vocation. ...
|  | Cartwright Plays 1: Road; Bed; Two; The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Contemporary Dramatists Series) (Vol 1)
Publication Date: August 12, 1996| ISBN-10: 0413702308 | ISBN-13: 978-0413702302Road: "A surreal vision of the contemporary urban landscape…uncomfortable and magical, funny and bitter. It is a northern Under Milk Wood, high on pills and booze" (Sunday Times). Bed: "Cartwright writes better about old people than anyone I know, except perhaps Beckett. This is an odd, harrowing and hilarious piece, entirely without sentimentality, sturdy but moving." (John Peter, Sunday Times)Two: "A sharp, salty quickfire evocation of the surface gaiety and underlying melancholia of English pub li...
|  | You Are Free: Stories
Release Date: May 3, 2011From the bestselling author of Caucasia, riveting, unexpected stories about identity under the influence of appearances, attachments, and longing.Each of these eight remarkable stories by Danzy Senna tightrope-walks tantalizingly, sometimes frighteningly, between defined states: life with and without mates and children, the familiar if constraining reference points provided by race, class, and gender. Tensions arise between a biracial couple when their son is admitted to the private school where they'd applied on a lark. A new mother hosts an old friend, still sing...
|  | Poesias completas (Clasicos de la literatura series) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: May 1, 2008| Series: Clasicos de la literatura series For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres, including theater, novels, poems, and essays. Los lectores tomarán un gran placer en descubrir los clásicos con estas bellas y económicas ediciones de las grandes obras literarias. Esta selección editorial cuenta con títulos que abarcan todos los géneros literarios, desde teatro, narrativa, poesía y el ensay...
|  | Tiresian Poetics: Modernism, Sexuality, Voice, 1888-2001
Publication Date: July 30, 2008Blind seer, articulate dead, and mythic transsexual, the figure of Tiresias has always represented a liminal identity and forms of knowledge associated with the crossing of epistemological and ontological boundaries. In twentieth-century literature, the boundaries crossed and embodied by Tiresias are primarily sexual, and the liminal and usually prophetic knowledge associated with Tiresias is based in sexual difference and sexual pleasure. Indeed, in literature of the twentieth century, Tiresias has.com e to function as a cultural shorthand for queer sexualties...
|  | Jess (Outlaws)
Publication Date: November 1, 2000| Series: Outlaws Mere days after becoming an outlaw, Jess Gentry stared down the wrong end of a six-shooter. A ready trigger-finger brooked no argument, until the black-clad figure calling the shots was shot down. Jess’s conscience and years of training as a doctor demanded he try to help. But the bounty hunter was like no other he had encountered – long ebony hair, even longer sexy legs, and green eyes a man could get lost in. And soon, Jess knew, while Meg didn’t plan on taking him to the sheriff, she had certainly gotten her man.Meg ...
|  | The Fifth Profession
Publication Date: May 1, 1990From the bestselling author of First Blood comes a spectacular thriller, in which a former Navy SEAL and a Japanese samurai master are bound together in a terrifying past that never happened. ...
|  | A Knight in Sticky Armor (Disney Junior: Doc McStuffins) (Little Golden Book)
Release Date: December 11, 2012| Age Level: 2 and up...
|  | Lalaloopsy: Meet the Lalaloopsy Girls
Publication Date: September 1, 2011| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up...
|  | The Fast Lane (Deluxe Coloring Book)(Cars movie tie in)
Release Date: April 25, 2006| Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up Cars are the stars of this unique new film that chronicles the speed bumps that a hot-shot athlete encounters on his journey to the winner’s circle. This retelling of the film features kids’ favorite characters and lots of action-packed activities. ...
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|  | The Insane Root
Publication Date: December 1, 2006Rosa Praed, also known as Mrs. Campbell Praed, was born in Australia, but lived sixty of her eighty-some-odd years in England. Of her forty novels, over half were based on her life in Australia, with subjects ranging through politics to the loneliness of living on a rural island -- and including the occult and the supernatural. Her interest in things outré grew so intense, in fact, that she participated in séances and automatic writing.The Insane Root begins with Isadas Pacha giving Doctor Marillier a package -- the doctor is to give it to the Empe...
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